SOAS Studies in Music
About the Book Series
The SOAS Studies in Music Routledge Book Series is one of the world’s leading series in the discipline of ethnomusicology and global music studies. Our core mission is to produce high-quality, ethnographically rich studies of music-making worldwide, with particular interests in Asia and Africa. We publish monographs, edited volumes, and translations that explore musical repertories and performance practice, critical issues in ethnomusicology, sound studies, historical and analytical approaches to music across the globe. We recognize the value of applied, interdisciplinary and collaborative research, and our authors draw on current approaches from musicology, anthropology, history, and digital humanities.
Series Editors
- Professor Rachel Harris (SOAS University of London)
- Dr Richard Williams (SOAS University of London)
Editorial Board
- Professor Kwasi Ampene (University of Michigan)
- Professor Linda Barwick (University of Sydney)
- Professor Angela Impey (SOAS University of London)
- Dr Peter McMurray (University of Cambridge)
- Dr Moshe Morad (Tel Aviv University)
- Professor Suzel Reily (Universidade Estadual de Campinas)
- Professor Henry Spiller (University California Davis)
- Dr Marié Abe (University of Berkeley California)
The Routledge Companion to Music and Human Rights
1st Edition
Edited
By Julian Fifer, Angela Impey, Peter G. Kirchschlaeger, Manfred Nowak, George Ulrich
January 29, 2024
The Routledge Companion to Music and Human Rights is a collection of case studies spanning a wide range of concerns about music and human rights in response to intensifying challenges to the well-being of individuals, peoples, and the planet. It brings forward the expertise of academic researchers,...
Celtic Music and Dance in Cornwall: Cornu-Copia
1st Edition
By Lea Hagmann
September 25, 2023
Focusing on the Cornish Music and Dance Revival, this book investigates the revivalists’ claims about Cornwall’s cultural distinctiveness and Celtic heritage, both which are presently used as arguments to promote the English county’s political status as an independent Celtic nation. The author ...
DIY House Shows and Music Venues in the US: Ethnographic Explorations of Place and Community
1st Edition
By David Verbuč
September 25, 2023
DIY House Shows and Music Venues in the US is an interdisciplinary study of house concerts and other types of DIY ("do- it- yourself") music venues and events in the United States, such as warehouses, all- ages clubs, and guerrilla shows, with its primary focus on West Coast American DIY locales. ...
Everyday Musical Life among the Indigenous Bunun, Taiwan
1st Edition
By Jonathan P.J. Stock, Chou Chiener
September 25, 2023
Everyday Musical Life among the Indigenous Bunun, Taiwan contributes to multidisciplinary research on music in everyday human life by pushing beyond the urbanized Western populations routinely featured in such writing. Based on ethnographic study in Buklavu, a village in southern Taiwan mostly ...
Gold, Festivals, and Music in Southeast Brazil: Sounding Portugueseness
1st Edition
By Barbara Alge
September 25, 2023
Gold, Festivals, and Music in Southeast Brazil: Sounding Portugueseness is a study of the musical legacy of the eighteenth century Brazilian gold rush that integrates ethnographic research of the main genres of former mining communities in Brazil – from liturgical music in the style of European art...
The Musical Heritage of Al-Andalus
1st Edition
By Dwight Reynolds
September 25, 2023
The Musical Heritage of Al-Andalus is a critical account of the history of Andalusian music in Iberia from the Islamic conquest of 711 to the final expulsion of the Moriscos (Spanish Muslims converted to Christianity) in the early 17th century. This volume presents the documentation that has come ...
Tradition and Creativity in Korean Taegŭm Flute Performance
1st Edition
By Hyelim Kim
September 25, 2023
Tradition and Creativity in Korean Taegŭm Flute Performance describes the taegŭm as a representation of Korean culture in the contemporary world. Through the development and performance of creative works, this horizontal bamboo flute reflects both tradition and contemporary creativity. The first ...
Dhrupad: Tradition and Performance in Indian Music
1st Edition
By Ritwik Sanyal, Richard Widdess
February 16, 2023
Dhrupad is believed to be the oldest style of classical vocal music performed today in North India. This detailed study of the genre considers the relationship between the oral tradition, its transmission from generation to generation, and its re-creation in performance. There is an overview of the...
Becoming an Irish Traditional Musician: Learning and Embodying Musical Culture
1st Edition
By Jessica Cawley
April 29, 2022
Coupling the narratives of twenty-two Irish traditional musicians alongside intensive field research, Becoming an Irish Traditional Musician explores the rich and diverse ways traditional musicians hone their craft. It details the educational benefits and challenges associated with each learning ...
Musicians in Crisis: Working and Playing in the Greek Popular Music Industry
1st Edition
By Ioannis Tsioulakis
April 29, 2022
Musicians in Crisis is a music ethnography of contemporary Athens, before and during the infamous economic and political crisis. It spans two contrasting periods in Greece: the last few years of relative economic prosperity and social cohesion (2005–2009) and the following period of austerity and ...
Presence Through Sound: Music and Place in East Asia
1st Edition
Edited
By Keith Howard, Catherine Ingram
April 29, 2022
Presence Through Sound narrates and analyses, through a range of case studies on selected musics of China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and Tibet, some of the many ways in which music and ‘place’ intersect and are interwoven with meaning in East Asia. It explores how place is significant to the many ...
Music in Conflict: Palestine, Israel and the Politics of Aesthetic Production
1st Edition
By Nili Belkind
October 16, 2020
Music in Conflict studies the complex relationship of musical culture to political life in Palestine-Israel, where conflict has both shaped and claimed the lives of Palestinians and Jews. In the context of the geography of violence that characterizes the conflict, borders and boundaries are ...